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I
v Following a conference in Seat
tle last week participated In by
representatives . of ; the , federal
fish and wild life-service of the
Washington fisheries division of
the department t of conservation
and of th Oregon fish commis
sion,' it was announced that sal
mon hauling . operations at Rock
-Island dam in the Columbia be
low Wena tehee would be discon
tinued In 1944. Salmon will be
.expected to pass .the dam and so
up into . headwaters of ; streams
emptying into the Columbia be
- low Coulee dam to find spawning
(rounds. v If this . 'expectation
proves.' but, the problem of , fish
- propagation posed by the great
dams, on the Columbia may be
. regarded as solved. , '
It Is recall edthat the army en
gineers spent around $7,000,000
providing fish ways and a fish
elevator ; at ' Bonneville to help
salmon on their journey upstream
for spawning." The fish patronize
the fishways but few ride the ele
vator. The results are very satis
factory, for the runs have not di
minished In volume since
cross the river was completed.
The .next hurdle wis 1 Grand
Coulee, wtih a wall so high that
HO attempt to suirdount it was
considered. Even if the fish could
be lifted over the dam it was
feared : their seabound offspring
would be killed in the 'fall over
the dam or in the waters going
through the turbines. How to' pre
serve the salmon runs was a
Question which gave authorities
nd individuals interested in the
salmon industry serious concern.
The federal bureau of fisheries
Wanted to build " a hatchery near
the base of Coulee dam and ter
minate their responsibility with
that.' The Oregon fish commission
insisted that the federal govern -
rnent which built the dam had a
continuing responsibility.
Finally . it was .agreed that the
'gravid salmon should be "collected
it Rock Island dam and hauled in
Irucks to the hatchery, at Leaven
Vorth. The" young . fish should
then be liberated in the waters of
Streams (Continued on editorial
yage) '7 : v.
Flu Epidemic
Causes WU
tTo Close Early
Y Willamette university; will close
for the Christmas recess ... today
ioon. The ; time of adjourning
Classes was moved forward a day
nd a half because of an outbreak
fit influenza in mild form at Laus
anne hall, where the navy unit is
domiciled. Some 30 of the appren
tice seamen are confined to quar
ters by illness. These will remain
tin til their fever Is broken and
they can safely be discharged.
, According to Pres. G. Herbert
Smith -' none i of the patients Is
seriously ill, but the absences
were interfering with class work,
and the university and navy phy
sicians agreed the early closing
.was advisable.
VNo early closure of public
schools is contemplated, Supt.
Frank B. Bennett ' declared
Monday night.. Absences were
slightly above the average, he
said, but nothing was' reported
' that -indicated anything like an
' epidemic. .s:n- .......
Y Far too many cases" of influ-r
enza are existent in Marion, coun
ty, according to W. ' J. Stone,
county health ' officer: " His " ex
perience agrees with' that of the
state board of health: Most at
tacks are so mild that physicians
have : not : reported them,' both
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Japanese
' To Be Released
, 1 SALT LAKE CITY, Dec." 2 1-A
: Ttelease of loyal Japanese Axneri
-eans from war relocation centers
will be resumed on a large scale
' in the spring, Ottis Peterson, re
location supervisor for the inter'
piountain-Pacific region, said to
f Vetrraan exnlained that release
s retarded now because of winter
end overloaded transportation la-
ClHties.
! There now are approximately
84,000 persons of Japanese ances
try in nine WRA camps in. seven
western - states and 18,0000 at
v' Tulelake, Calif., compared with a
w teak of 110.000. Peterson re-
" ported... . ;
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NINETY THED YEAR
British Force
Takes Air, US
Hits Bremen
By ROBERT, N. STURDEVANT j
LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 21
(JPh British heavy bombers
smacked undisclosed targets in
ermany.last.mght after Am
erican Liberators and Fortres
ses hit the u-Doat center oz
Bremen in daylight, the British
announced officially early to
ady. '- -
Axis radios also told of an al
lied air blow against Sofia by day.
A Berlin broadcast said points
in southwest Germany were struck
by British squadrons before mid
night. English coastal observers
had heard large forces of bombers
heading out ! across the channel
soon after dusk, indicating another
big night attack.
The German report as usual
said the British bombers hit "res
idential quarters," causing damage
and losses to the civilian popu
lation. A number of the night
raiders were said to have been
destroyed. j .
- US Flying Fortresses and Lib
era torn, aided by American and
allied fighters, plastered Bre
men with high explosives and in
cendiaries and shot . down 42
German figrhters at a cost of
25- bombers and . eight fighters.
The latest American aerial blow
coincided with . an axis-reported
attack on the Bulgarian capital of
Sofia at noon, 1 and- followed yes
terday's 'American heavy bomber
attack from Mediterranean bases
on . two objectives, j Augsburg t in
southern Germany and Innsbruck,
above the Brenner-pass in Aus
tria. "'
A blackout of continental ra
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McNutt Stakes
Claim on Job,
Rehabilitation
By MAX HALL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (JP)
Paul V. McNutt staked a claim
today to the many-sided job of
absorbing millions of soldiers and
saOors back into civilian life.
He did it by announcing a de
mobilization program based on the
1500 local offices of the United
States employment service, a part
of -the war manpower commission
which he heads.
' The manpower phase of the na
tion's conversion to peacetime is
a Job in which at least 14 govern'
ment : agencies have an interest
There has been speculation oyer
who would coordinate, it-
. L : Placing veterans in jobs.
About 1 00,000 persons now are
leaving the armed services every
month, - WMC officials said ,
Placing them how is "simple,' Mc
Nutt said in a statement, there
fore, the program during wartime
will be designed to gain exper
ience for the .huge assignment
when peace, comes. ; ; :. '
- 2. Counselling veterans in all
their problems. McNutt said the
employment service office, in each
community would serve as sin
gle place where the veteran can
go to get all the answers and ser
vices to which he is entitled.
S. Coordinating government ac
tivities. - i-'-i ,
McNutt told a press conference
he anticipates no f jurisdictional
struggle ' in handling demobiliza
tion. -'
Montreal Workers -Decide
on Strike v
MONTREAL, Dec. 20-WWhite
collar workers bf Montreal decid
ed at e mass meeting tonight to go
on strike to back up demands for
wage increases from the Quebec
municipal commission, which con
trols the finances of the city. .
The city ball workers, members
of the National Syndicate of Mu
nicipal employes, voted 950-40 to
cease work, with Ohe stoppage to
be effective tomorrow morning.
Lampman Included
PORTLAND, Dec. 20
"Blinker Was a Good Dog," a short
story by Ben Hur Lampman, as
sociate editor of the Oregonlan,
has been included in the O. Henry
memorial prize stories of 1943. . '
The story: appeared hi Atlantic
Monthly last March.
12 PAGES
Salem.
ml
Eisenhower
In Bethlehem
i - - -- r -CAIBO,
Dee. It (Delayed)-
. Among the first soldiers to pray
in Bethlehem daring the Christ
mas month was Gen. Dwixht D.
Eisenhower, who said immed
iately after he arrived in Jeru
salem from the Teheran con
ference: "My main desire is to go to
Bethlehem.'
The supreme commander of
allied forces in the north Africa
theater visited all the holy sites
la the town and prayed in the
grotto of the nativity.
Yank Bombers
Stage Heaviest
Pacific Raid
By LEONARD MUXJMAN
Associated Press War Editor
American bombers brought hints
of new invasions today with the
heaviest raid of the Pacific war
a 414-ton bombload poured on
Cape Gloucester in New Britain
and four attacks in two days on
Mili atoll in the southern Marshall
islands, 300 miles from the Amer
ican-held Gilberts.
American troops advanced three
miles in the Arawe sector of New
Britain to capture their first air
field on the island' which the Jap
anese have encircled, with .airports
and. barge liases. On "the nearby
Huon . peninsula of New Guinea
the Japanese were in full retreat
across ine Aiasawang river, aoan
doning much undamaged artillery
and i equipment to the pursuing
Australians.
And there was more sheer
terror wrapped op for the Nip
ponese in the quiet words Mon
day of Field Marshal Lord Wa
vell, viceroy ff India, who said
India is organized to receive
and launch against the Japanese
"a mightier force of warships,
armies, and air squadrons than
has ever before been gatherd
in the east."
The 414 tons of bombs blasting
Cape Gloucester caused many
fires and explosions on this most
heavily bombed spot of western
New Britain. The single attack
far exceeded the heaviest bomb
load ever dropped on . the much
larger target of Rabaul, key fort
ress of the island. Cape Glouces
ter, junction of the enemy's barge
Rickenbacker Sees
Victory in 1944' . .
NEW YORK, Dec. 20-ipP)-Capt.
Edward V. Rickenbacker, In his
annual Christmas greetings to his
many personal friends,, today pre
dicted victory over the Germans
in 1944 . ' ? -:"- ' -W ';
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WW
Commission
. r; .- - .i -: -. 1 '. - .
Back Tax
- The ; Salem city water
mission has authority to pay the
127.517.95 back taxes ; bffl
against water system properties
oat of Its funds. That authority,"
given to it by resolution of tho
elty eouncil Monday nlgbt,
noakes possible the payment of
the long-standing account, be-
- fore the deadline date.- of March .
L 1944, set by the Marion oun
ty eonrL ' , -
. It ends, also, the deadlock over
the tax question,.
. . When the city purchased the
properties of the water company
here it bought them "clear,' but
later learned that the taxes for
the year 1835 had been levied and
assessed although tax bills were
not in tho mail , until after the
purchase was completed, r
Contending that ' because - the
properties were then public: own
ed the taxes were not owing or
that they were owed by the for
mer holders, the water commis
sion ' refused to pay. L t e r , the
commission reportedly was ready
to make: the payment and was
held up by the threat of taxpayers
that . they would , enjoin it from
such action.. ' i ;
Taken to court, the case wag de
Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 21 1943
CflSDV
US Heavies Hit
Goering's Pride,
Bag 59 Fighters
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Dec. 20-(fl3- Reaching
for the heart of nazi Germany
from new 'Mediterranean hases,
great fleets of American hea
vy bombers threw an aerial
gauntlet into the face of Her
mann Goering's luftwaffe yesr
terday, shooting down or badly
damaging 59 German fighters in
twin blows at Augsburg in Ger
many and Innsbruck in Austria.
The raids, with their omen of
greater 'attacks to come, coincid
ed with local gains by the allied
Fifth army in Italy, which pushed
forward in places for two miles in
the- west-central area,' and the
Eighth army, which .was, busily
engaged in chopping to pieces for
the second time its bid opponent
the 90th panzer grenadier division,
near the Adriatic coast.
The Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators 'were escorted the entire
way ' by American fighters the
advanced airdromes making i this
possible. '
Liberators of the 15th air force
flew to Augsburg, industrial city
35 miles northwest of Munich, and
dropped their bombs through .cloud
patches. Augsburg is , but 80 miles
from the nazi shrine of. Nuern
berg.
Between 40 and 60 nazi fighters
swarmed into .attack and were
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ogra
End Strike
In Capitol
WASHINGTON, Dee. 29 -(fl3)
Unexpectedly ending a one-day
stoppage that crippled publica
tion of the capital's four news
papers, officials of the Colom
bia Typographical union acced
ed tonight to a war labor board
request that its printer mem
bers return to work.
The decision, by Jesse B. Man
beck, the local, union's president,
followed a 10-minute closed con
ference with labor members of
the WLB. .
t Previously, Manbeck told the
board he would refuse to recom
mend a resumption of .work un
less the board was "assure an ex
peditious settlement" of wage ne
gotiations with publishers.
Wayne L. Morse, public mem
ber,, told the union's chief. ..that
"you think your're stronger than
the United . States government"
and added that "the only thing
that this board can do is - take
you on. - - ' . '
Van A. Bittner, a labor member
of the board, immediately asked
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Typ
pner
To Pay
Council
Bills.
cided early this past f all fby". the
state supreme tribunal, : which
held that the taxes were due and
owing and were alien against the
properties although, because ' of
the municipal ownership, they
could not be collected by fore
closure. However, the . court's
opinion continued, the lien would
continue and could be collected If
the properties should ever be sold.
iS By agreement with the state tax
commission and the Marion coun
ty court the water commission
arranged to pay the principal and
to escape the interest which had
mounted through the years. Only
question left to settle was whether
the payment should be made from
water commission funds or by a
bond issue. The waysr'and means
committee of the city council and
the city attorney advised the coun
cil that the payment from funds
is within the law. 5
City Recorder " Alfred ; Mundt
should clarify his. request for a
clarification of the overtime ; sit
uation among city - employes, Al
derman Dan Fry, declared' Mon
day night and the nine other ward
representatives of the city's ruling
body agreed, with him. Just who
Is working overtime? To what
Named by Snell
V
V
GEORGE NEUNER, SR.
G. Neuner, Sr.,
To Fill Post
Of Van Winkle
George Neuner, sr., of McMinn-
ville, former US district attorney
for Oregon, was appointed; attori
ney general of Oregon to succeed
the late I. H. Van Winkle. The ap
pointment was made by Gov. Earl
Snell Monday afternoon and is ef
fective until the general election
of 1944. Neuner is a republican.
He was in Salem for the funeral
of Mr. Van Winkle yesterday but
returned to McMinnville last night
He plans to return to Salem this
morning to be sworn in, but will
hot remove to Salem until after
the first of the year.
As attorney general he will
have the distinction of being
the third of Oregon's seven at
torney generals who formerly
prsct; la at iRoseborg. His
service will be unique In another
respect: one of the present staff
of assistants in the office bis
son, George W. Nenner; anoth
er assistant. Rex Kimmel, was
his deputy in the office of fed
eral district attorney and later
his partner in law practice in
Portland from 1933 to 193S
The two other attorney generals
from Roseburg were A. M. CraW'
ford. 1903-1915. and George M.
Brown, 1915-1920. " i
George Neuner has been active
in the practice of law in Oregon
since his graduation from Willam
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Metal Company
Delays Contract
W A S H I NGTON, Dec. 20 -JP)
Overthrow of Bolivia's pro-ally
government ; by a revolutionary
coup was regarded here . with
some concern tonight but diplo
matic sources were inclined to
think that American-Bolivian re
lations will continue without any
fmrtortant disruptions.
Pending direct; word i from" La
Paz, ' however, negotiations, be
tween -the -Bolivian . government
and the United States Metals He-
serve company, a government-fl
nanced organization, for a new
five year tin contract were sus
pended. . :
does Mundt's question refer? Fry
wants to know, and so does the
council. "Specific cases'. Vera re
quested. -. - ' - '.
, Mundt pointed out in a letter
to the council that a recent salary
ordinance - had failed . to i provide
any-consistent system for limiting
overtime, leaving that apparently
to the state statute. What Mundt
wants to know is how much overtime-
Is ; permissible, when 4 does
overtime pay start and how much
is that pay and all the other an
swers to questions which he de
clares confuse a payroll clerk.
HI and unable to attend Monday
night's meeting, Mundt was rep
resented, by his assistant, Peter
Cleary. :
r Under Oregon law, the state
highway commission most an-'
prove all 'traffic signs la cities
ander 59,609 - population,. the
streets committee, and city en
gineer reported last night. '
; So. ; City Engineer J, H Davis
was instructed to make . a list of
all such signs for reference to' the
highway department. Thus, the
question of what to do with the
disapproved ' railroad .stop signs
which the city council two weeks
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$27,000
No, 233
Bolivian -Socialists
Revolt
New Government
Anti-Allies, ;
:: Seizes Tin Mines
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec.
20-(AP)- A nationalist
revolutionary m o v ement
led by a slight bespectacled
sociologist -today . over
threw the government of
Gen. Enrique Penaranda
in a swift pre-dawn , coup
and h o r 1 1 y afterward
placed troops In charge of tin ore
mines " producing for the- United
States and Great Britain. " ,
" The, new government is de
scribed by its opponents as mili
tantly anti-United States. .
The new leaders, however, all
pledged in a public statement to
live up to Bolivia's commitments
to the United Nations and, scotch
ing reports that a counter-revolution
had started, announced that
the new government had totally
consolidated , its position.
? Bolivia, one of the first. Latin
American nations to enter the war
against the axis, produces a large
portion- of the tin ore used in the
manufacture of "British and Unit
ed States arms.. .
. - (Lima advices quoted travelers
arriving by air from La Paz as
saying that' the. revolution was
bloody and that army planes had
flown, from Santa Cruz, Bolivia,
toward La Paz to aid the revolu
tion.) . :; ,-T.. ' . :
. Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader ' of
the coup,' installed himself in the
presidential ' palace where Major
Gualberto Villarroel took over the
reins ' of government as chief of
the revolutionary junta. " " T " - ; '
Penaranda and his brother, Capt.
Eliseo Penaranda, are to be es-
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Morgenthau
Blasts Tax
By TOM REEDY
WASHINGTON, - Dec. 20-(JP)
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau
angrily denounced congress to
night for batting down his new
revenue bill to one-fifth his
recommendations and charged the
lawmakers with opening the door
to "truly extortionate profits" by
war contractors.
Morgenthau's heated comments
to a press conference immediately
raised the prospect of a request
for a presidential veto of the en
tire tax bffl. -i -
.The secretary held out one hope
for his- aims, - a reversal - of con
gressiohal - - opinion "over the
Christmas : recess, which - - isn't
Considered Very likely. ; '
Morgenthau' blasted at two ac
tions by the house and the senate
finance committee on his $10,
500,000,000 tax bill the way it
was cut down to $284,000,000,
and the" amendments - rewriting
the act for. renegotiation of war
contracts - to ? recapture x excess
profits. - - ...
Lady Astor
Tells Tales
. A UA AKMT CAMP IN
BRITAIN, Dee. 25 Lady
Astor. told three Cornish dialect
stories to soldiers at this post
today and thereby won s 40
ponmt pig.'
The Vlrrinla-born parlia
ment member was a gaest at
the camp. The commanding of
ficer recalled that he. had of- -fered
her a pig If she would en
tertain his troops with ' her
Cornish yarns.'
Lady Astor was abashed at
first, bat warmed np after the
first drew a hearty langh.' Com
pleting ber stories, she dragged
the sqaealing pig from the plat-
form. -
Stewart on Mission
A U.S. BOMBEK BASE IN
BRITAIN, Dec. 20 CapL
James Stewart, former movie ac
tor, flew a lead liberator bomber
today in the raid on Bremen. It
was his second mission' over en
emy country. ' . .
There was lots of stuff up there
today," he said. "The boys really
had a good look at , all types of
enemy fighters." .
Price 5c
Takes 70 Towim
ggesic iir
Multiple; Tlirusts to Polish Lino
Brings Territorial Gains J, ;
Fo 1000 Square Miles
'V. Bv James M. Long i
LONDON, Tuesday,
winter-trained first Baltic,
lages yesterday in sua offensive nearinar the old Polisb,
and Latvian frontiers, and
day tbat the enemy is retreating, abandoning :.:a great
quantity of arms and ammunition." ' j "
Developing their ' big
just above the White Russian border, the Russians werj
believed to be within 55 miles of both Poland and Lat
via in multiple thrusts toward the rail strongholds tit
Polotsk and Vitebsk.
In less than a .week the Russians have 'recaptured
nearly 1000; square miles of territory the Germans had been holding
and fortifying for more than two years, including 570 localities, and
have killed or captured nearly 24,000 ;enemy troops.;i ij 1
A; German, broadcast also announced that the 'Germans! had ,
evacuated their bridgehead on the east bank of the ice-bound Dnieper
river opposite, the city of Kherfon Suggesting an imminent assault
on Kherson itself, on the west bank; the Berlin announcer said "there
is no doubt whatsoever that the enemy plans to take advantage
Of this." J ' : 1 IM - K
A' midnight communique supplement broadcast by Moscow and
recorded by the soviet monitor said
army had wiped out 1500 Germans attempting to hold an advantageous
line south of Nevel, and killed 300 more in toppling one of several
strongpointi reduced during the
" German counterattacks in the
near Kirovograd in the Dnieper bend also were beate'n down b
Russian armies of the south, the bulletin said.i . ji )i - - v
The Germans were said to
one sector . of 1 the "Korosten front
place, but soviet counter' blows
initial position,. the communique
Hurling a regiment of 3000
siege lines near Kirpvograd, the
1200 more men and 39 tanks. Soviet airmen also knocked out 20 nazi
tanks.' , ir;. i; r, , ' : v;j A: rt; '.; - ,1
. 'i In reductiorl of. one- German strongpoint on Jhe Nevel front
the communique said a" soviet formation - captured-a' considerable
number of, prisoners, 80 machine guns, 12 guns, and a large carf
column of military equipment. ' ' . V'sj '; - i '
: Soviet advance guards were believed to be about. 30 or 33 miles
from. Vitebsk on the, north. - - .. ' , t , -
it to Be
An OfHcer-- '
. S OME W II E RE IN THE
SOUTH PACIFIC-iip-A Jap
anese plane swooped down and
strafed a small boat. The hor
rified yoang coxswain brought
the small eraft, littered with his
dead baddies, to shore and ran
down the beach yelling wildly.'
A tall bronzed yonnr man,
clad only : In shorts, halted the
coxswain,' put his arm around
him and talked In a calm fa
therly fashion. v
The coxswain' quieted 'down.
Later he remarked, "Gee, that
gay was swell, Made me feel
better. He should have been an
officer."
The gay who should have
been an officer wos Lieut. Com
mander Robert B. Kelly of Ba-7
taaa's FT, beat expendables. -
At Pendleton
.' PENDLETON, Ore Dec 20-(ff)
Cant. E. J. rreesel public relations
officer of tho Pendleton air base.
announced at" "8 30 (PWT) tonight
that a single-motored army plane
which left Felts field, Spokane, st
4 o'clock this afternoon was miss-ing-ahd"
f eased ; down.
- The ship flew over Pendleton
field at 5:10 pjn. and radioed It
would , make an - instrument let
down because of the heavy over
east, Freese said. ' -
The pilot reported he had three
hours' gasoline supply,' Freese
said. Tho ' plan was flying east
as it passed over tho field, ho
added, and nothing has been
heard of it since. - '.
SPOKANE, Dec. 20 -JP- The
identity of a passenger aboard a
single-motored . army airplane
which was reported missing near
Pendleton, Ore.," tonight ' had not
been determined -up to 10:30 pjn
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OiurchiUStiU : ;
Said Improving '. . ' : -
LONDON, Dec. 20-itfK Prime
Minister Churchill, showing mark
ed improvement for the fourth
straight day since the 'announce
ment that; he had been .stricken
with pneumonia in the middle
east, was reported -in today's bul
letin to be "making satisfactory
progressM . . ".
The bulletin, issued from No.
10 Downing street, disclosed that
the C3-year-old statesman's tem
perature has been normal for 48
hours. -'" v : :
Medical 1 authorities here said
the crisis apparently had been
passed, r -. ' '
mQm
Missing
71
D e c 21 (AP) Russia's)
army captured 0 morel vil
Moscow announced early! to
push from south of Nevel,
': :. .. i: . : .. ;' ;
Gen. I. C. Bagramian's First Baltie !
day. T ; , ; l j :
Korosten sector west of i Kiev andi
have lost " 600 men and '27 tanks hi
They broke into one Dobulated
"forced the enemy to rel ire to his
said. - - i -y ; .!
men and 100 tanks against soviet
Germans --were declared to have lost
mplate
Strike Date
V By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS rj
WASHINGTON, Dec. ! 20 -(JP)
Leaders of a million non-operating
railroad employes may set a strike
date tomorrow., or Wednesday,'
compounding the danger of a na
tionwide rail tieup ordered i by
five operating brotherhoods,! be
ginning December 30, to enforce
wage demands..1."
. While President Roosevelt !
quietly continued to seek a set
tlement and a house committee
-delayed action on the issue,
Transportation Director Joseph
' Eastman uttered the warning
that a rail strike "could de mere
harm to the war effort" than
anything the enemy might do.
' Sorely ; disappointed by failure!
to get prompt house action on the
senate-approved resolution which
would validate art increase' of! i
cents ah hour, a subcommittee pi
the non-operating unions ; decided
to summon all 13 , chiefs of those ,
unions to a meeting tomorrow to
consider the setting of a strike
date. - i.."" - I i :
The 350,000 operating railway
workers have called a strike for
December 30, while . the 1,100,000
non-operating ' clerks, machinists
and similar workers have taken
a 'strike vote without announcing
results. r V - '
Eastmansaid the workers, after
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Lebbld Named
Representative
Eugene A. Lebold, 2195 MyrU4
avenue, was named ! as labor's
representative on Salem's city
postwar planning committee; and
the name , of Erwin Battermani
1862 South - Cottage' street, con
tractor, was added to the roster
Monday ; night by Mayor I. Mr
Doughton. 'ip" i'.i
The appointment of Lebold was
made upon the request of Chair
man Daniel J. Fry of the com
mittee, with the approval of the
city council. "If we name' one from
the labor group we should nam
an employer, too," Doughton sug
gested, and ' no disapproval was
expressed.
I
YTeatlier . ' '.';. ' , ; !-.:
Xfeaday maximum temperature'
47; minimum S3. XUver -1.2 ft. 1
Partly el e a d y Toesiar and
Wednesday; few scattered elouJsj
snow flurries in extreme southern
part; not much change In temper
store, j , .